We are strong advocates for cloud technologies. It would be a bit odd if we weren’t given what we do. Cloud delivers significant benefit to ...
Best advice… always!
Telling a customer something they may not want to hear is always a difficult thing to do, but no matter how difficult it may be, we mustn’t shy ...
How does Azure (or AWS) compare to a Lamborghini?
Imagine you have just bought a Lamborghini. But you’re used to driving a Ford Fiesta. You cannot expect to jump in the driving seat and race...
Controlling the cost of Azure (or AWS) workloads
A lot of people wrongly assume that the cloud is simply cheaper than on-premise or ISP-based services. Move workloads to Azure or AWS and, hey presto,...
DevOps – making it work!
In the last post, DevOps – how not to do it!, we considered the different anti-patterns for DevOps; the short cuts that result in a swamp of poo...
DevOps – how not to do it!
DevOps – a term bandied about by all, understood by few, and delivered by almost no-one. Why? Partly because there are many different flavours of De...
Accelerating delivery and lowering risk of global financial services firm’s move to Azure data warehouse
Expert Thinking supports a global financial services firm in their migration from a legacy Oracle data warehouse to an Azure data platform. We provi...
Moving to Azure data services reduces costs by 25% for leading UK lender
Expert Thinking successfully migrates a leading UK lender to a new Azure data services solution. Working with the customer, we designed and implemen...
What makes Expert Thinking different?
Someone asked me today “what makes Expert Thinking different?” It’s a good question! And, it’s a question I ask myself every day. Why should ...
Are you are failing at cloud?
Are you just repeating the same mistakes on cloud? Common indicators you’re failing include: You’ve more than one persistent environment ̵...